Glenn Miller wrote: >Beethoven, my favorite composer is now deaf, getting older >(by those standards), does he have it in him to produce masterworks in >those few years, to consider over the younger Schubert? He was working on a 10th. The performing version I have heard sounds rather mundane, after the preceding 9, but after all this was just a sketch, and he probably would have done a lot more with it. On the other hand, could it be that his fount of inspiration was finally starting to dry up? Jon Johanning // [log in to unmask]